Improvement in bale-ties



UNITED STATES PATE RICHARD C. LUDLOW, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TlES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 79,578, dated July 4, 1876 application iled i May 20, 1876.

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, RICHARD C. LUDLoW, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication, and to the letters and gures ot' reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of the plates as cut by the die, and Fig. 2 is a plan view ot' my bale-tie. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View thereof.

This invention relates to m/eans for fastening bale-ties; and it consists, mainly, in the blank, which is adapted to be folded into a instelling-plate, and which is constructed by stamping with a die from a strip of sheet metal without waste of material. It also consists in the combination of a fastening-plate, which is doubly perforated and provided with two bent arms or catches for engaging with the tie wire, as hereinafter set iorth and claimed.

.In Fig. l of the accompanying drawings, Adesignates the blank, which is perforated at a a, and provided with ears or extensions al a1 projecting outwardly, which are adapted when folded over to form catches a2 a2, shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

It will be observed that the shape of the blank A is such that in stamping from a strip of metal a double series of such blanks will be formed; those on one side of the strip facing those on the other side and exactly filling the space between them. Consequently there is no waste of material in the process ot' manufacturin g the blanks.

In Figs. 2 and 3, B represents the fasteningplate, formed from the blank A, shown in Fig. l. The catches a2 a2 are employed for holding one end, c', of the wire-tie G; thel other end, c, of said tie is fastened to saidv plate B through the holes a al. One or both of these holes may be made oblong,` in shape. I prefer to give such oblong shape to the inner hole, as that is the one on the edges ot' which the strain vchielly comes.

In practice, the end c ot' tie-wire C is rst secured through the holes a a in plate as shown. Then the other end, c, ot' the tiewire C is passed around the bale and under one ot' the catches a2 a2; thence around the other end, o, ot' tie-wire (j, and back under the other catch a2 of plate B, eiectually fastening the device. My bale-tie fastening may be detached and used over again.

This invention is intended as an improvement on the bale-tie shown in my Letters Patent dated April 4, 1876, No. 175,720.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The manufacture of a double series oi' baleties from a single strip of sheet metal of a given width, without waste of material, as shown, said bale-ties having outwardly-projecting extensions al al, for the purpose set forth. l

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence ot' two witnesses.

RICHARD C. LUDLOW.

Witnesses EDWARD WELSH, ALFRED CLIFFORD. 

